EIGHT GAS STREET LAMPS IN THE CHURCHYARD OF THE PRIORY CHURCH OF ST MARY AND ST MICHAEL

EIGHT GAS STREET LAMPS IN THE CHURCHYARD OF THE PRIORY CHURCH OF ST MARY AND ST MICHAEL, MALVERN, MALVERN HILLS, WORCESTERSHIRE

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Eight gas street lamps from the mid to late-C19. Read the official list entry to find out more.

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1389554
Date first listed:: 07-Nov-2001
List Entry Name:: EIGHT GAS STREET LAMPS IN THE CHURCHYARD OF THE PRIORY CHURCH OF ST MARY AND ST MICHAEL
Statutory Address:: EIGHT GAS STREET LAMPS IN THE CHURCHYARD OF THE PRIORY CHURCH OF ST MARY AND ST MICHAEL, MALVERN, MALVERN HILLS, WORCESTERSHIRE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1389554
Date first listed:: 07-Nov-2001
Date of most recent amendment:: 28-Sep-2011
List Entry Name:: EIGHT GAS STREET LAMPS IN THE CHURCHYARD OF THE PRIORY CHURCH OF ST MARY AND ST MICHAEL
Statutory Address 1:: EIGHT GAS STREET LAMPS IN THE CHURCHYARD OF THE PRIORY CHURCH OF ST MARY AND ST MICHAEL, MALVERN, MALVERN HILLS, WORCESTERSHIRE

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: EIGHT GAS STREET LAMPS IN THE CHURCHYARD OF THE PRIORY CHURCH OF ST MARY AND ST MICHAEL, MALVERN, MALVERN HILLS, WORCESTERSHIRE

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Worcestershire
District:: Malvern Hills (District Authority)
Parish:: Malvern
National Grid Reference:: SO7756545874, SO7756945874, SO7758845874, SO7759445914, SO7762245904, SO7762645860, SO7763545849, SO7764145835

Summary

Eight gas street lamps from the mid to late-C19.

Reasons for Designation

Architectural interest: the lively and varied design of the gas lamps with features including barley sugar twist and fluting; Intactness: they survive largely intact and in their original position as working gas lamps; Group value: part of an extensive group of gas street lamps in Malvern, many of which are listed.

History

Modern street lighting, in the form of gas lamps, arrived in England at Pall Mall, London in the early C19. There followed a proliferation of cast-iron gas lamp posts in a prodigious range of designs, some highly ornamental.

The first gas works in Malvern opened in 1856 and in 1909, it was reported by the town surveyor and engineer, Mr W. Osborne Thorpe, that Malvern was lit solely by 1,120 gas lamps all fitted with incandescent burners. There are historical references to ‘a George Hammons being paid 14/- per week to operate the lamps twice a day’.

Details

Eight gas street lamps within the churchyard, of various designs all with copper lanterns. Mid to late C19. Six have cast-iron columns. Four made by the Horsley Co. of Tipton have octagonal columns with rings, octagonal bases and caps, and double ladder rests. One by Dutton & Co. of Worcester, has a barley-sugar twist column and a missing ladder rest. One made by Hamilton Woods & Co. of Manchester has a fluted octagonal column and slender ladder rests. Two further gas lamps sit atop the sandstone piers opposite the north entrance to the priory. They have four curved iron brackets with leaf decoration. All are fitted with Sugg Windsor lanterns and are complete and working.

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 488240
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Other
Listing Selection Guide. Street Furniture (April 2011),

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.